Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he'll force tough votes this week on whether senators back Iran over Israel and over four American prisoners still being held by the regime in Tehran as all sides scrambled for ways to stiffen the nuclear deal President Obama reached with the ...

(John Hinderaker) The second Republican presidential debate is coming up tomorrow evening on CNN. What better way to watch it than with a few hundred or thousand fellow conservatives? The audience for tomorrow's debate should be huge, and it could be a make or break event for several candidates who have not been able to break out of the pack. So: plan to sign in to Power Line Live tomorrow. The undercard

The Republican 2016 hopefuls relegated to Wednesday's preliminary GOP presidential debate have a new sense of urgency after their ranks were culled last week with the withdrawal of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry from the race and the elevation of one of their own, Carly Fiorina, to the main stage.

(Steven Hayward) Okay, I've got the guest lineup set for the Bill Bennett "Morning in America" show tomorrow. We'll be doing a comprehensive preview of the GOP debate tomorrow night, and I'll offer a couple of novel predictions of my own that I haven't heard anyone else make so far. At 6:35 eastern I'll welcome Pete Wehner, to talk about, among other things, his recent Commentary.com column "Donald Trump: What the Founders

Uber is appealing U.S. District Judge Edward Chen's recent ruling that a case against the car-hailing startup can proceed as a class action lawsuit. This comes as no surprise, given that Uber said it would likely appeal the judge's decision. When the ruling came out earlier this month, Uber lawyer Ted Boutrous said the case is based on "several key legal errors" and… Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday defended sending more military aid to Syria, and he blasted the U.S. for creating a refugee crisis by its actions against Syrian President Bashar Assad, drawing a rebuke from the Obama White House, which has struggled for years to counter Russia's moves on the ...

The '80s were fun, fabulous and economically stimulating. What brought us Michael Jackson, the Sony Walkman, Star Wars and Pac-Man also ushered in the era of Analytics. Toyota pioneered just-in-time manufacturing, retailers deployed bar code scanners and ATMs became widespread. The world was being digitized. Read More

An Australian woman was returning home from walking her dogs last week when officers wouldn't allow her back inside her residence. A car accident required police to temporarily block foot traffic, but that wasn't gonna stop this pedestrian from getting back into her home. A woman gave two Australian police officers, who were keeping her from accessing her home as they ...More

"The Gateway Tunnel is a critical infrastructure project for the states of New Jersey and New York, and more broadly for the entire region," says Asst. WH Press Sec. Frank Benenati in e-mail comment. Plan would create high-speed rail route to alleviate bottleneck along the Northeast Corridor NOTE: Project similar to Access to the Region's Core (ARC) cancelled in Oct. 2010 by N.J. Gov. Chris Christie. Related story: Christie's Political Ambitions Confront Need for U.S. Tunnel Aid

(John Hinderaker) The Center for Medical Progress released its latest Planned Parenthood video today. It is around 12 minutes long, and is compiled from several original videos which CMP also released, in full, unedited form, on its YouTube page. This latest video features a number of Planned Parenthood employees or representatives (the organization's structure is unclear to me) talking about selling babies' body parts. The conversation is frequently creepy enough to be

What happens in a Lyft will now happen in Las Vegas, Nevada. On Monday, the Nevada Transportation Authority gave both ride-sharing startups Lyft and Uber permits to operate in Sin City. Uber has not updated us on when it plans to launch, but Lyft just "turned on the switch" and is currently deploying drivers, according to Lyft spokesperson Sheila Bryson. Lyft also just posted… Read More

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and potential candidate Vice President Joe Biden will both in same crowd Sept. 19 at a dinner for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Link to full story

Many founders ask me for advice on their latest startup. Of all the things I've learned, some of the most compelling tips come from starting a business out of an old truck. When I joined the founding team of Kogi BBQ with Chef Roy Choi in 2008, all we had was a food truck and "seed funding" from a maxed-out credit card. We had no idea that it would change the entire food… Read More

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - One of New Mexico's highest-ranking state officials is expected to enter a plea Tuesday to charges that she funneled campaign contributions to her personal bank accounts and withdrew large sums of money at casinos.

Republican Secretary of State Dianna Duran is due in district court ...

Earlier this year, Opera Software bought SurfEasy, a virtual private networking (VPN) service that helps users maintain their privacy and surf safely. With the release of Opera 32 for desktop today, the company is now starting to integrate SurfEasy into its flagship browser for Windows, Mac and Linux. Read More

Dutch startup Bux is on a mission to open stock trading to a much larger market — namely, those who have never traded before. Its casual trading app for iOS and Android attempts to gamify trading (as if wasn't gamified enough already) by letting traders start off with virtual currency before investing with real money, as well as compete with friends. Read More

Earlier this month, the Internet's raison d'être was unleashed when Cat Street View launched. Created to purr-mote tourism in Onomichi, a port city in Hiroshima Prefecture, the site quickly gained a slew of international meowdia coverage despite being available only in Japanese. TechCrunch caught up with the Hiroshima Prefecture Tourism Division to ask about Cat Street… Read More